Aisha Buhari commends Ambode’s donation to IDPs

The wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, has
commended
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos for donating
N150 million to
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Adamawa,
Borno and Yobe.
The commendation is contained in a statement
signed by Buhari’s
Special Assistant on Media, Adebisi Ajayi, on Friday
in Abuja.
Buhari said the gesture would help to ameliorate the
sufferings
of IDPs in various camps in the affected states as
well as in their
rehabilitation, and urged other states and
individuals to emulate
the governor.
She said that insurgency had remained a major
challenge in the
country but expressed optimism that it would soon be
a thing of
the past.
She appealed to governors of the affected states to
take
measures at ensuring that children in the IDPs’
camps were
properly catered for.
“I am grieved as a mother that children can go
through such
appalling conditions in their country,’’ Buhari said,
noting that
malnutrition rate of children in the camps had risen.
She explained that children had specialised
nutritional needs, and
said the current situation underscores the
importance of highly
specialised nutritional support for this category of
children.
Ambode had on October 21, presented three cheques
of N50
million each to governors of Adamawa, Borno and
Yobe,
respectively, shortly after the Council of State
meeting.